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alt="" height="112" width="119"></a>Once again
this week, there was big news affecting the ebook
business (launch of the <a
href="http://www.extremetech.com/computing/97335-the-birth-of-the-kindle-tablet-and-the-death-of-the-public-library">Kindle
Fire</a>), but since you've certainly already
been bombarded with that news, we're going to
avoid the ebook subject altogether. Instead, we
found some items of interest concerning the
accuracy, or assumed accuracy, of information on
the Internet. Of course, the Internet is not one
homogeneous thing, and the accuracy of information
found there depends very heavily on where you are
looking. The studies below, for instance, indicate
that information from Wikipedia tends to be pretty
reliable, while YouTube can be a rich source of
misinformation.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.jeffersonhospital.org/News/study-update-cancer-information-on-wikipedia-is-accurate-but-not-very-readable.aspx">Cancer
information on Wikipedia is accurate, but not
very readable</a> (Kimmel Cancer Center at
Jefferson University Hospitals) "The research
revealed that Wikipedia updates faster than PDQ
[National Cancer Institute's Physician Data
Query]; however, the hyperlinks embedded within
Wikipedia take the user to more dense
information. PDQ takes you to more simplified
explanations on the content a user clicks on for
more information."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1107673">Movement
disorders on YouTube - caveat spectator</a>
(New England Journal of Medicine correspondence)
"For patients with a movement disorder, the
information available on YouTube may be
misleading and may provide an inaccurate
impression of the disorder and its treatment.
One video described as showing facial dystonia
showed different patterns of facial spasm that
appeared to be triggered by an electrical
stimulator, and it suggested that dystonia could
be alleviated if the patient wore cotton clothes
and avoided radiation."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15097139">Is
the internet rewriting history?</a> (BBC
News/Catrin Nye) "Closest to the heading 'Trust'
the pupils placed YouTube; somewhere near the
heading 'Distrust', they placed the government.
As part of the exercise, the pupils were asked
what kind of videos they had viewed online. A
lot of discussion ensued about various
conspiracy theories. All the pupils had seen
videos about 9/11, but were not sure who had
made them. 'Those ones are true,' said Aminul
Islam, 16."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.demos.co.uk/press_releases/conspiracytheoriesrifeinclassrooms">Conspiracy
theories rife in classrooms</a> (Demos press
release, 9/30/2011) "The report argues that the
amount of material available at the click of a
mouse can be both liberating and asphyxiating.
Although there are more e-books, trustworthy
journalism, niche expertise and accurate facts
at our fingertips than ever before, there is an
equal measure of mistakes, half-truths,
propaganda, misinformation and general
nonsense."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Digital
fluency fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">The Demos
think tank surveyed teachers in England and Wales
and found that 75% of them think Internet-based
content is important in the formation of their
pupils' beliefs, but 50% rated their pupils'
ability to recognize bias or propaganda in online
information as poor (34%) or very poor (16%).
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